Panic! Singer Knocked Out At Reading

25 August 2006

Panic! At The Disco singer Brendon Urie has been knocked out by a bottle thrown from the crowd during the band's set on the
opening day of Reading Festival. He's recovered though - and the show HAS gone on...

It appears certain elements of the Reading Festival crowd have failed to heed the warnings from
organisers to stay on the right side of the law.

It's taken only three and a half sets for Reading's rioting
contingent to claim its first victim - Panic! At The Disco
singer Brendon Urie.

Seconds into the band's early afternoon set, a bottle was hurled from
the crowd which connected with the singer's head.

Urie collapsed into a heap to the obvious distress of his
fellow band members and the set was stopped for several minutes while medics and roadies checked if the singer was ok
to continue.

Then, putting two fingers up to the moron who threw the bottle, the band launched back into their
opening song 'The Only Difference Between Suicide And Martyrdom Is Press Coverage'.

The band also played a cover
of Radiohead's 'Kharma Police' and 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' with Urie's face
still visibly swollen from the bottle.

Our man on the ground said: "I've never seen anything like
it at a festival. There weren't many other bottles being thrown and then this one just arched towards the stage and caught
him right in the face. He went down like a sack of shit."

Panic! At The Disco were the fourth band to play Reading's main stage, following sets by Towers
Of London, Fightstar and Dashboard Confessional.

Despite Towers Of
London releasing homing pigeons from the stage, the opening day at Reading had been far from a peaceful affair.

Hear
about the almost as riotous start to Leeds Festivalhere and
stay posted to VF for more news from both sites throughout the weekend.